Bessie
Smith
Images of Women's History collected by Jone Johnson Lewis
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Empress of the Blues
Bessie Smith
Photographs of Bessie Smith taken by Carl
Van Vechten.
Click on a photograph of Bessie Smith to see a larger version.
Images
of Bessie Smith courtesy of Library of Congress
Modifications © Jone Lewis 2002.
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Bessie Smith, jazz great, in
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Guide
Picks
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
 Book:
Angela Davis writes about Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie
Holiday as women who created musical style and modeled economic
independence.
After You've Gone - Bessie Smith
Music Album:
From "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Careless Love," from "Good Man is Hard
to Find" to "I Ain't Goin' to Play Second Fiddle," these classics from
Bessie Smith are classics of the blues, and worth a listen today.
The Ladies Sing the Blues
Video: 1989 film with Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, Lena
Horne, Peggy Lee and Sarah Vaughan.
Bessie Smith
Book: Jackie Kay outlines the life of Bessie Smith in this creative
biography including images and poetry.
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